TY - JOUR
T1 - Prophylacti
AU - Mavroudis, Constantine
AU - Stulak, John M.
AU - Ad, Niv
AU - Siegel, Allison
AU - Giamberti, Alessandro
AU - Harris, Louise
AU - Backer, Carl L.
AU - Tsao, Sabrina
AU - Dearani, Joseph A.
AU - Weerasena, Nihal
AU - Deal, Barbara J.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Specific congenital heart anomalies significantly increase the risk for late atrial arrhythmias, raising the question whether prophylactic arrhythmia operations should be incorporated into reparative open heart procedures. Currently no consensus exists regarding standard prophylactic arrhythmia procedures. Questions remain concerning the arrhythmia-specific lesions to perform, energy sources to use, need for atrial appendectomy, and choosing a right, left, or biatrial Maze procedure. These considerations are important because prophylactic arrhythmia procedures are performed without knowing if the patient will actually experience an arrhythmia. This review identifies congenital defects with a risk for the development of atrial arrhythmias and proposes standardizing lesion sets for prophylactic arrhythmia operations.
AB - Specific congenital heart anomalies significantly increase the risk for late atrial arrhythmias, raising the question whether prophylactic arrhythmia operations should be incorporated into reparative open heart procedures. Currently no consensus exists regarding standard prophylactic arrhythmia procedures. Questions remain concerning the arrhythmia-specific lesions to perform, energy sources to use, need for atrial appendectomy, and choosing a right, left, or biatrial Maze procedure. These considerations are important because prophylactic arrhythmia procedures are performed without knowing if the patient will actually experience an arrhythmia. This review identifies congenital defects with a risk for the development of atrial arrhythmias and proposes standardizing lesion sets for prophylactic arrhythmia operations.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.026
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.026
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25442995
AN - SCOPUS:84920565486
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 99
SP - 352
EP - 359
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 1
ER -